Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

David Shore

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fox, Jim

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Jong, Erica

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

31.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

36.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Proverb

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.