Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Baldwin, James

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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