Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

David McCullough

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Ogden Nash

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Twain, Mark

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann