Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Bob Ross

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

LeMond, Greg

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

13.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

14.

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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

16.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

17.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

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

Oakley, Ann

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

20.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

26.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

27.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

28.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

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

30.

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

Jones, Beverly

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

38.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

39.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

40.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

41.

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

Rivers, Joan

42.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

44.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

46.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

47.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

48.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren