Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

10.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

11.

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

12.

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

Rivers, Joan

13.

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

James M. Barrie

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

15.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ogden Nash

18.

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

Herbert, George

19.

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

Oakley, Ann

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

23.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

24.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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

27.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

28.

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

30.

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

Weil, Simone

31.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

32.

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

Lombardi, Vince

33.

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

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

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

36.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

37.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

38.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

39.

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

40.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

44.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

45.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

46.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

48.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

50.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George