Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

10.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Jones, Beverly

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

Twain, Mark

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

28.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Book, William Frederick

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

David Shore

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Halas, George

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret