Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bhagavad Gita

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

20.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

James M. Barrie

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

27.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

28.

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

Prince, Ray

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Proverb, French

35.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

36.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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