Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Best Quotes about Work

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

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Howard Newton

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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

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

David Shore

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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