Motivational Quotes

Work

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riley, Pat

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Robert Morley

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thomas Carlyle

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Devine, Dan

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Baldwin, James

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Thomas A. Edison