Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Barzan, Gerald

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Don Marquis

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ruskin, John

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Sand, George

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

James M. Barrie

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

Parkinson's Law

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George