Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Stengel, Casey

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Blow, Susan

10.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

11.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

12.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

14.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

15.

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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Devine, Dan

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

27.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

30.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

33.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Butler, Samuel

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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 banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata