Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Rohn, Jim

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

11.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

13.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

18.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

19.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

23.

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

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Prince, Ray

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Anatole France

32.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Keller, Helen

44.

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

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.