Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

- Hughes, Charles Evans

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gillis, Dobie

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

11.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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.

John Ruskin

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Book, William Frederick

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

43.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don