Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Work is a four letter word!

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

Austen, Jane

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paterno, Joe

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Herbert, George

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Blow, Susan

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Confucius

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Ford, Henry

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

Gorky, Maxim