Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

10.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

11.

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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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

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

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

15.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

16.

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

17.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

18.

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

Richard Bach

19.

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

20.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

21.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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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

25.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

26.

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

27.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

30.

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

31.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

32.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

34.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

35.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

39.

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

Robert Morley

40.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

45.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

46.

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

Ford, Henry

47.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Maxine Hong Kingston