Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

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

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

10.

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

11.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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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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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.

18.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

19.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Holtz, Lou

22.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

23.

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 joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

25.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

28.

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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

30.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

32.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

39.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

41.

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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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.

43.

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

Maurois, Andre

44.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

45.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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