Motivational Quotes

Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Work is a four letter word!

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Halas, George

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William