Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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.

11.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

17.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Ogden Nash

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Robert Benchley

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

Thomas A. Edison

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

James M. Barrie

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.