Motivational Quotes

Work

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Comaneci, Nadia

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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.

...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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Carty, Margaret

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte 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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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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

Thomas Carlyle

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Keller, Helen

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Pavlova, Anna