Motivational Quotes

Work

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Work

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

Kemp, Jack

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Riley, Pat

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Howard Newton

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

Carty, Margaret

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Voltaire

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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 relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Rohn, Jim