Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ruskin, John

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Dodge, B.

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Frost, Robert

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

Book, William Frederick

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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