Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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.

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

Halas, George

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Billings, Josh

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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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 man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

David Shore