Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Lombardi, Vince

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Lowell, James Russell

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Don Marquis

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

18.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

James M. Barrie

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Michelangelo

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

29.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bob Ross

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is a four letter word!

49.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.