Motivational Quotes

Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Blow, Susan

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

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

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Huxley, Aldous

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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There is no substitute for hard 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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Mcgoorty, Danny