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

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

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Jong, Erica

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

James M. Barrie

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Rutte, Martin

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peter Drucker

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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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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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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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie