Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Halas, George

Best Quotes about Work

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Blow, Susan

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Peter Drucker

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

10.

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

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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.

20.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Bible

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

28.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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.

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

Lombardi, Vince

31.

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

David Shore

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Rutte, Martin

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

41.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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