Motivational Quotes

Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Work

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

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.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Baldwin, James

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Thomas A. Edison

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert, George

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough