Motivational Quotes

Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

10.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

11.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Benchley, Robert

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

19.

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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Peter Drucker

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

Ogden Nash

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

42.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert