Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lombardi, Vince

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Blow, Susan

34.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.