Motivational Quotes

Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Don Marquis

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Richard Bach

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis