Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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.

10.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

11.

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

12.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

13.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

14.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

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

Austen, Jane

16.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

20.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

21.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

23.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

25.

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

David McCullough

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

29.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

30.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

35.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

37.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Confucius

41.

Work is a four letter word!

42.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

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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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

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote