Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Rohn, Jim

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

10.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

11.

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

12.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Allen, James

14.

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

David McCullough

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Billings, Josh

18.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

19.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

34.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

41.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

42.

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

43.

Work is a four letter word!

44.

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

Prince, Ray

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

49.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Coolidge, Calvin