Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

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

Sand, George

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Escher, M. C.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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 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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Confucius

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thomas A. Edison

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert