Motivational Quotes

Work

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

- Fitch, Fred W.

Best Quotes about Work

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Twain, Mark

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Foster, Jodie

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Ford, Henry

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Oakley, Ann

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Bible

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Dodge, B.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.