Motivational Quotes

Work

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

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

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

Parkinson's Law

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Twain, Mark

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

David McCullough

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible