Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

10.

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

Oakley, Ann

11.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

20.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Sand, George

22.

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

David McCullough

23.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

25.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

26.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

27.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

33.

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

Don Marquis

34.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

35.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.