Motivational Quotes

Work

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

- Brown, Dean Charles R.

Best Quotes about Work

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work is a four letter word!

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Slick, Grace

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

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Richard Bach

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Bob Ross

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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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