Motivational Quotes

Work

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Twain, Mark

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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.

31.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Marquis, Don

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.