Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Herbert, George

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

34.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Kemp, Jack

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Thomas A. Edison

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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