Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Comaneci, Nadia

Best Quotes about Work

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, American

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Henry David Thoreau

11.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

16.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Rohn, Jim

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

34.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

35.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

David Shore

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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 relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French