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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

12.

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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Proverb, French

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

31.

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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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Richard Bach

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

46.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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