Motivational Quotes

Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilde, Oscar

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Stengel, Casey

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Bible

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

25.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

30.

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

Diller, Phyllis

31.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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.

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Michelangelo

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Blow, Susan

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion