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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lincoln, Abraham

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Michelangelo

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Lombardi, Vince

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Book, William Frederick

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Ogden Nash

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Kollwitz, KaThe