Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Parkinson's Law

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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

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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

David Shore

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

Robert Benchley

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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