Motivational Quotes

Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Don Marquis

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

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

11.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gillis, Dobie

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Jong, Erica

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Oakley, Ann