Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Prince, Ray

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Richard Bach

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Ford, Henry

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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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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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

32.

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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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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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles