Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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.

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

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.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

11.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

12.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

13.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

14.

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

Lennon, John

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

Pavlova, Anna

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

18.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

25.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

31.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

34.

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

Holtz, Lou

35.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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.

43.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

44.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oprah Winfrey

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

48.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.