Motivational Quotes

Work

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Marquis, Don

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robert Morley

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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Riley, Pat

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Gorky, Maxim

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.