Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Twain, Mark

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Rohn, Jim

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Angelou, Maya

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Jong, Erica

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Proverb, French

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

Picasso, Pablo

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis