Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Proverb, American

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bhagavad Gita

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Escher, M. C.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Sam Ewing

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Work is a four letter word!

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