Motivational Quotes

Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Confucius

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

Thomas Carlyle

11.

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

Blow, Susan

12.

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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

17.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

18.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

24.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

25.

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

Jones, Beverly

26.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holtz, Lou

29.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

33.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Lombardi, Vince

35.

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

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

39.

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

Escher, M. C.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

41.

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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

LeMond, Greg

47.

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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

49.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Herold, Don