Motivational Quotes

Work

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

- Don Marquis

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Riley, Pat

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Butterworth, Eric

12.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

15.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

16.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

18.

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

James M. Barrie

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Slick, Grace

21.

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

22.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

25.

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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

30.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

31.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

32.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

34.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

39.

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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas