Motivational Quotes

Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

- Holton

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Shakarian, David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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

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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

David Shore

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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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.