Motivational Quotes

Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Prince, Ray

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

Ford, Henry

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Proverb, French

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

James M. Barrie

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

Billings, Josh

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Halas, George

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Lowell, James Russell

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.