Motivational Quotes

Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Huxley, Aldous

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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By the work one knows the workmen.