Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Rohn, Jim

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Milsap, Ronnie

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

10.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

11.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

12.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

13.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

14.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

16.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

17.

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

Proverb

18.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

19.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

20.

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

Huxley, Aldous

21.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

22.

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

Richard Bach

23.

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

Sam Ewing

24.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

26.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

29.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

30.

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

31.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

32.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

34.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

41.

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

42.

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

Slick, Grace

43.

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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

45.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

47.

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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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley