Motivational Quotes

Work

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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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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

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Weil, Simone

26.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

31.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

32.

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Ford, Henry

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

35.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

37.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

49.

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

Confucius

50.

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

Blow, Susan