Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

James M. Barrie

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Anatole France

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Don Marquis

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Rutte, Martin

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Halas, George

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

Proverb

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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

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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...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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Foster, Jodie

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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.