Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Don Marquis

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

Proverb

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Ford, Henry

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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Twain, Mark

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Voltaire

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Marquis, Don

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

David Shore

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Kemp, Jack

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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.