Motivational Quotes

Work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas Carlyle

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

10.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

11.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

12.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Milsap, Ronnie

14.

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

15.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

16.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

17.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

28.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

29.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

30.

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

Elbert Hubbard

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

33.

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.

34.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

38.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.