Motivational Quotes

Work

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, George

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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