Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Stengel, Casey

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

11.

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

Peter Drucker

12.

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

James M. Barrie

13.

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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

19.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

20.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Barack Obama

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

27.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Garfield, James A.

30.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

42.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.