Motivational Quotes

Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Billings, Josh

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Keller, Helen

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

30.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

Rollwagen, John

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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