Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ford, Henry

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Syrus, Publilius

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Proverb, American

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Twain, Mark

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Don Marquis

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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.

John Ruskin

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

David Shore

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.