Motivational Quotes

Work

Want is the mother of industry.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Don Marquis

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

Marquis, Don

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

James M. Barrie

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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