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

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

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.

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

Barack Obama

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Work is a four letter word!

38.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.