Motivational Quotes

Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Herbert, George

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Lennon, John

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

14.

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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

17.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

18.

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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

25.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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.

28.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

32.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

33.

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

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

36.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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.

40.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work your way up or rust your way out.