Motivational Quotes

Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Butterworth, Eric

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Proverb, French

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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

Romer, Frank

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Bible

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Oakley, Ann

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Austen, Jane

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis