Motivational Quotes

Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Elbert Hubbard

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Herbert, George

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

42.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Foster, Jodie

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

46.

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

Billings, Josh

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis