Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Anatole France

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

26.

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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Bible

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Twain, Mark

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Baldwin, James

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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