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

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

Reagan, Ronald

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ashford, Evelyn

11.

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

12.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

18.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

21.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

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

Henry David Thoreau

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Carty, Margaret

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

39.

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

40.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

42.

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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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

44.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Thomas Carlyle

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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