Motivational Quotes

Work

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Austen, Jane

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

Shakarian, David

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

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

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Barack Obama

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mansfield, Katherine