Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

13.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Ford, Henry

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul