Motivational Quotes

Work

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

- Conran, Shirley

Best Quotes about Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Proverb, French

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Blow, Susan

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow