Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

10.

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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ogden Nash

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Voltaire

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

34.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, French

42.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg