Motivational Quotes

Work

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

- Conran, Shirley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Parkinson, Joseph

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Lombardi, Vince

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Jong, Erica

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

13.

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

Rutte, Martin

14.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

15.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Gorky, Maxim

18.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Twain, Mark

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

21.

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

22.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

23.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

25.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

27.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

28.

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

29.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

30.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

31.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Richard Bach

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

46.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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