Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Diller, Phyllis

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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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 the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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 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 labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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