Motivational Quotes

Work

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Don Marquis

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Billings, Josh

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

17.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Richard Bach

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bob Ross

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.