Motivational Quotes

Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

10.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Robert Morley

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

13.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Ford, Henry

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Twain, Mark

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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Pickens, T. Boone

34.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

35.

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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

James M. Barrie

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

Ashford, Evelyn