Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Frost, Robert

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Halas, George

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

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

28.

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

Shakarian, David

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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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

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

David Shore

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.