Motivational Quotes

Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

10.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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 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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Richard Bach

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Pickens, T. Boone

37.

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

Kemp, Jack

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Halas, George

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dodge, B.