Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Fox, Jim

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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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

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Prince, Ray

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Don Marquis

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard