Motivational Quotes

Work

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Lombardi, Vince

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Twain, Mark

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Shakarian, David

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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

Romer, Frank

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Riley, Pat

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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