Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Romer, Frank

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dodge, B.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Paterno, Joe

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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 a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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 only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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