Motivational Quotes

Work

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

- Mortimer, John

Best Quotes about Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

10.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

11.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

14.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Rutte, Martin

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

44.

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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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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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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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Austen, Jane