Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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 don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Stengel, Casey

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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

19.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul