Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Halas, George

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Don Marquis