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

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

Fox, Jim

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Robert Morley

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

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

James M. Barrie

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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]

Bible

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone