Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Bible

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

David McCullough

18.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work is a four letter word!

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Ford, Henry

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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.

Robert Benchley

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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.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

39.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Proverb

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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 do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.