Motivational Quotes

Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

- Javits, Marion

Best Quotes about Work

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lowell, James Russell

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Weil, Simone

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

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.

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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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.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Twain, Mark

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gillis, Dobie

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.