Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Fox, Jim

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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 works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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