Motivational Quotes

Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Marquis, Don

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

David Shore

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Twain, Mark

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

10.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

11.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

12.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

19.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

20.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

21.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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

24.

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

Ogden Nash

25.

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

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

31.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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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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.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

39.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

40.

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

Book, William Frederick

41.

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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

43.

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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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen