Motivational Quotes

Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

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

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Dodge, B.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Austen, Jane

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Oakley, Ann

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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

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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Marquis, Don

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The work praises the man.