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

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Kemp, Jack

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Twain, Mark

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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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