Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Rivers, Joan

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Voltaire

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

10.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Frost, Robert

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

David Shore

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

22.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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