Motivational Quotes

Work

How do I work? I grope.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Jong, Erica

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Billings, Josh

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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