Motivational Quotes

Work

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomas A. Edison

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Howard Newton

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

James M. Barrie

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

David Shore

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

42.

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

Proverb, American

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Peter Drucker

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey