Motivational Quotes

Work

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Elbert Hubbard

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Proverb, French

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Ogden Nash

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Billings, Josh

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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 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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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