Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Halas, George

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Michelangelo

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Voltaire

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

James M. Barrie

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred