Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, American

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

Romer, Frank

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Dodge, B.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

18.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

28.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Escher, M. C.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance