Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Butler, Samuel

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Twain, Mark

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Paterno, Joe

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Richard Bach

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

David Shore

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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