Motivational Quotes

Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Work

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

Blow, Susan

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

Wilde, Oscar

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Frost, Robert

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Stengel, Casey

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

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Bob Ross

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

31.

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

33.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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

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

Voltaire

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.