Motivational Quotes

Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

- Young, Neil

Best Quotes about Work

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

Berra, Yogi

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Lombardi, Vince

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is a four letter word!

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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

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Ogden Nash

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Bible

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Anatole France

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

Proverb, French

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen 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 is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Escher, M. C.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Michelangelo

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Voltaire