Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

- Hughes, Charles Evans

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Garfield, James A.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

13.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

14.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

15.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

16.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

17.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

18.

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

19.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

20.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

21.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

22.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Rutte, Martin

25.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Book, William Frederick

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

31.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

32.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

34.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

42.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

43.

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

Herbert, George

44.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

45.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

David Shore

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

Proverb, French

50.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica