Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Allen, James

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

14.

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

Ford, Henry

15.

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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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

18.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

19.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

21.

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

Halas, George

22.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

23.

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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

26.

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

Proverb, American

28.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Keller, Helen

30.

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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

33.

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

34.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

40.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Herbert, George

49.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.