Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

10.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

11.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Huxley, Aldous

13.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Voltaire

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

17.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Prince, Ray

19.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

20.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Richard Bach

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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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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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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

34.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

42.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

43.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Angelou, Maya