Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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

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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

18.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

22.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

23.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

26.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

27.

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

28.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

30.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

32.

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

Ogden Nash

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

34.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

42.

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

Jones, Beverly

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

47.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Twain, Mark