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

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Diller, Phyllis

...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

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Proverb, American

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Riley, Pat

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Light is the task where many share the toil.