Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

19.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

43.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Bible

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell