Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Weil, Simone

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Riley, Pat

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

15.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

40.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

41.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall