Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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.

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

Shakarian, David

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

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Keller, Helen

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

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.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Baldwin, James

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

29.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Oakley, Ann

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Don Marquis

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Thomas A. Edison