Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

12.

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Stengel, Casey

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

22.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Blow, Susan

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Oprah Winfrey

30.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

LeMond, Greg

35.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lennon, John

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

41.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Billings, Josh

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Prince, Ray

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

Robert Morley

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

47.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.