Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Halas, George

11.

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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

15.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

16.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

21.

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

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

Bible

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Bible

28.

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

Escher, M. C.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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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