Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Voltaire

10.

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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

12.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

13.

Work is a four letter word!

14.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

17.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

18.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

21.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Marquis, Don

24.

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

25.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

27.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

28.

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

Bible

29.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

36.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Proverb, American

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Mitchell, Warren

42.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

44.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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