Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

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

Sand, George

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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.

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

Herold, Don

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Don Marquis

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

Weil, Simone

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

James M. Barrie

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore