Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Blow, Susan

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Baldwin, James

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Bob Ross

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Kemp, Jack

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.