Motivational Quotes

Work

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Sand, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard