Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Don Marquis

Best Quotes about Work

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

Sand, George

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Ogden Nash

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

11.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Kemp, Jack

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

23.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Don Marquis

26.

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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

28.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

29.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

32.

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

Maurois, Andre

33.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Hal Lancaster

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

46.

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

Foster, Jodie

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Richard Bach

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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