Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

13.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 job worth doing is worth doing together.

18.

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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

Marquis, Don

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Don Marquis

47.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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