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

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fox, Jim

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

Herbert, George

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is a four letter word!

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Elbert Hubbard

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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