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

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Henry David Thoreau

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

11.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

18.

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

Jones, Beverly

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

27.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

43.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques