Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ogden Nash

Best Quotes about Work

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

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Anatole France

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Voltaire

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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.

John Ruskin

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Bible

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

32.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward