Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Robert Benchley

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

11.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Prince, Ray

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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

29.

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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Michelangelo

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst