Motivational Quotes

Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

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

Butterworth, Eric

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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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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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

22.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ogden Nash

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

31.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Jong, Erica