Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Henry J. Kaiser

14.

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

16.

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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

22.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

24.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

25.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

26.

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

Elbert Hubbard

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

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

29.

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

Stengel, Casey

30.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

31.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

32.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Devine, Dan

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

Milsap, Ronnie

40.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

42.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

David Shore

45.

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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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

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

Halas, George

48.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard