Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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