Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

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

Fox, Jim

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Huxley, Aldous

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

10.

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

11.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Bible

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

17.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kemp, Jack

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

25.

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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

30.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

31.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

37.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

42.

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 either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

48.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle