Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Proverb, French

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Jong, Erica

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Barack Obama

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Don Marquis

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

Bob Ross

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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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...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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard