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

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Weil, Simone

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

27.

Work is a four letter word!

28.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

37.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Sand, George

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.