Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Howard Newton

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Marquis, Don

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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.

John Ruskin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert