Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

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

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Theodore Roosevelt

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Don Marquis

14.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Oakley, Ann

18.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Maurois, Andre

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Dodge, B.

28.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bible

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Riley, Pat

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

Rutte, Martin

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Sand, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De