Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

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.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Parkinson's Law

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Rohn, Jim

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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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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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

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.