Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Bible

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Marquis, Don

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

LeMond, Greg

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Angelou, Maya

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Herbert, George

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen