Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Bible

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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.

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

Proverb, American

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Blow, Susan

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Lombardi, Vince

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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

Bible

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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