Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Holtz, Lou

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

21.

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor