Motivational Quotes

Work

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Shakarian, David

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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

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

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Lennon, John

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

John Ruskin

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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 have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Ford, Henry

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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