Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Marquis, Don

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

21.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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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

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

30.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

LeMond, Greg

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Work is a four letter word!

45.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Blow, Susan

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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