Motivational Quotes

Work

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Work

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

James M. Barrie

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.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Twain, Mark

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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.

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

Rutte, Martin

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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.