Motivational Quotes

Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

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

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

10.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

22.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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.

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Oakley, Ann

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