Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Gorky, Maxim

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

10.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

11.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

15.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

21.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

26.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

29.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

32.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Riley, Pat

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.