Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Richard Bach

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

Devine, Dan

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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 is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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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