Motivational Quotes

Work

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Oakley, Ann

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Thomas Carlyle

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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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.

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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl