Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Blow, Susan

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Don Marquis

40.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

43.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

47.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett