Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Dodge, B.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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

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

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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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

16.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

18.

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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

20.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

21.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

22.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Book, William Frederick

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

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

30.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

34.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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