Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Halas, George

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

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

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

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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 our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.