Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

10.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

11.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

13.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

15.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

21.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

24.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

25.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

26.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

27.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

28.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

31.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

32.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

33.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

34.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

35.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

36.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

37.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

38.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

45.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

46.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George