Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Hal Lancaster

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Billings, Josh

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Frost, Robert

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

29.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible