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

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Twain, Mark

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Jones, Beverly

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hill, Napoleon

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

10.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

11.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Prince, Ray

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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