Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Ruskin, John

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Riley, Pat

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Don Marquis

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

Rohn, Jim

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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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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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lowell, James Russell

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas A. Edison

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Jones, Beverly

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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