Motivational Quotes

Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Sand, George

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Halas, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

David Shore

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

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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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...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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow