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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Frost, Robert

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Prince, Ray

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

Hal Lancaster

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Oakley, Ann

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

James M. Barrie

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough