Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Proverb

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

Bob Ross

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

Thomas A. Edison

11.

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

Oakley, Ann

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

18.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

19.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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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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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore