Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Twain, Mark

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

14.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

17.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Johnson, James Weldon

21.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ford, Henry

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

David Shore

42.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor