Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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.

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

Robert Benchley

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

20.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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Work is a four letter word!

33.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Butterworth, Eric

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs