Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

13.

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

19.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Bob Ross

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

28.

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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

30.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Maurois, Andre

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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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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

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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