Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Kemp, Jack

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rivers, Joan

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Ogden Nash

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Austen, Jane

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.