Motivational Quotes

Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

- O'Casey, Sean

Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

11.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

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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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

19.

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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

30.

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

Shakarian, David

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Ford, Henry

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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