Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Voltaire

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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]

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