Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Robert Morley

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Peter Drucker

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Halas, George

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

Voltaire

31.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

32.

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.

33.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

40.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

41.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

43.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

45.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Mcluhan, Marshall