Motivational Quotes

Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Weil, Simone

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Robert Benchley

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

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

Blow, Susan

20.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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.

25.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

27.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

28.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

30.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

32.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Michelangelo

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ogden Nash

49.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley