Motivational Quotes

Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Herbert, George

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Billings, Josh

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

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

David Shore

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Sand, George

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Halas, George

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

Thomas Carlyle

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Keller, Helen

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

32.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

James M. Barrie

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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