Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

10.

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

11.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

14.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Don Marquis

16.

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

James M. Barrie

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Bible

19.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

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

21.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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 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

25.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

26.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

27.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

28.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

29.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

30.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

32.

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

33.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

34.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

35.

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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

39.

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

Lombardi, Vince

40.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

50.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance