Motivational Quotes

Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Work

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Paterno, Joe

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

James M. Barrie

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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.

John Ruskin

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

Richard Bach

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

11.

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

Ogden Nash

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

13.

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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

29.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

31.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.