Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Fox, Jim

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

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.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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 human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work is a four letter word!

14.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

29.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Sand, George

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

Proverb

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

David McCullough

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, French

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard