Motivational Quotes

Work

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peter Drucker

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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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 no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.