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 matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Halas, George

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

Mitchell, Warren

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

12.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

13.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Elbert Hubbard

20.

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

Barzan, Gerald

21.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

22.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

23.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

24.

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

Austen, Jane

25.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Peter Drucker

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

39.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty