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

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

Rutte, Martin

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Richard Bach

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

Oakley, Ann

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

18.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

19.

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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Bob Ross

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

30.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

33.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Oprah Winfrey

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Bible

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

49.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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.