Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Butterworth, Eric

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ogden Nash

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Maurois, Andre

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Rutte, Martin

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Riley, Pat

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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 put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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