Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Parkinson, Joseph

Best Quotes about Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Frost, Robert

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

David McCullough

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Rutte, Martin

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jong, Erica

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Kemp, Jack

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat