Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Benchley, Robert

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Don Marquis

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Herold, Don

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Ford, Henry

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Richard Bach

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett