Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Work

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Twain, Mark

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

23.

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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Jones, Beverly

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Slick, Grace

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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.