Motivational Quotes

Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Syrus, Publilius

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Escher, M. C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Marquis, Don

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.