Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Syrus, Publilius

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Ogden Nash

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Baldwin, James

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Ford, Henry

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

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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 food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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 bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France