Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Reagan, Ronald

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

10.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Ford, Henry

20.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

21.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

28.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

45.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

46.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

48.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

49.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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