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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hal Lancaster

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

19.

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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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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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

22.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

24.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

26.

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

Mitchell, Warren

27.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Prince, Ray

31.

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

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Jong, Erica

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Michelangelo

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha