Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Book, William Frederick

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell