Motivational Quotes

Work

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

11.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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

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

18.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

19.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

24.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

27.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

28.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

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

Bhagavad Gita

31.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

32.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

33.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

34.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

35.

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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

40.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

41.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

42.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

43.

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

44.

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

Robert Morley

45.

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

46.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

49.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

50.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne