Motivational Quotes

Work

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Garfield, James A.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Rohn, Jim

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Frost, Robert

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle