Motivational Quotes

Work

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Work

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Shakarian, David

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

Thomas A. Edison

10.

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

Thomas Carlyle

11.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

12.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michelangelo

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

33.

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

Richard Bach

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Lombardi, Vince

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David