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 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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Billings, Josh

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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 banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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