Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Work

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Ford, Henry

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Kemp, Jack

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Weil, Simone

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Dodge, B.

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

Marquis, Don

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Halas, George

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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 human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Peter Drucker

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Riley, Pat

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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 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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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