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

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Slick, Grace

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

David McCullough

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

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

Romer, Frank

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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fox, Jim

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

26.

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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

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

Halas, George

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

39.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore