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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

10.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

11.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

12.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Elbert Hubbard

23.

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

Rutte, Martin

25.

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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

David Shore

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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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

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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 time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 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

47.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

49.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.