Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lowell, James Russell

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

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

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.