Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

18.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

Prince, Ray

20.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

21.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Parkinson's Law

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

26.

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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

28.

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

Don Marquis

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

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

32.

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

Sam Ewing

33.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

34.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

35.

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

Benchley, Robert

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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 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

42.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

43.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.