Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Coolidge, Calvin

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

David Shore

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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Austen, Jane

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Rivers, Joan

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Picasso, Pablo

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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