Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jong, Erica

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Foster, Jodie

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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

31.

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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Ford, Henry

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

38.

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

Rutte, Martin

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work is a four letter word!