Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ruskin, John

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dodge, B.

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

Confucius

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maurois, Andre

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

David McCullough

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rohn, Jim

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.