Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Voltaire

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Fox, Jim

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

11.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

15.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

16.

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

17.

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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

19.

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

20.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

21.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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.

26.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

27.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

28.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

Work is a four letter word!

34.

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

Robert Morley

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Don Marquis

39.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

45.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bible

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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