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

Voltaire

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

Kemp, Jack

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

David McCullough

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Jong, Erica

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Thomas A. Edison

33.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Carty, Margaret

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lennon, John

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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.