Motivational Quotes

Work

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

Work is a four letter word!

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas Carlyle

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

10.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

18.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

24.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

25.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

30.

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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

38.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

Marquis, Don

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

David McCullough

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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