Motivational Quotes

Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ford, Henry

10.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

30.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

31.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Michelangelo

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Anatole France

41.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

43.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garfield, James A.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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