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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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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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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diller, Phyllis

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

47.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Voltaire

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Work is a four letter word!