Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas A. Edison

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Prince, Ray

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

David McCullough

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Blow, Susan

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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