Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Oakley, Ann

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald