Motivational Quotes

Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Work

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ford, Henry

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Halas, George

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

Ford, Henry

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