Motivational Quotes

Work

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, French

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is a four letter word!

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Marquis, Don

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Weil, Simone

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

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew