Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Robert Benchley

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

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Thomas Carlyle

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Richard Bach

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William