Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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

David McCullough

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peter Drucker

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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