Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Keller, Helen

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

33.

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.

34.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

45.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Blow, Susan

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.