Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Thomas A. Edison

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

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

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

Proverb

11.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

12.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

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

Oakley, Ann

19.

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

Don Marquis

20.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

21.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

24.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

25.

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

Ford, Henry

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

39.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

43.

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

Kemp, Jack

44.

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

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

48.

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

49.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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