Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Robert Morley

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Twain, Mark

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Richard Bach

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Michelangelo

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

Foster, Jodie

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Keller, Helen

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William