Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Don Marquis

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

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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Chrysosatom, St. 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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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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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Pavlova, Anna

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Herbert, George

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Jones, Beverly

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carty, Margaret

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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 --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.