Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Herbert, George

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Garfield, James A.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jong, Erica

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Richard Bach

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Marquis, Don

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

James M. Barrie

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat