Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Romer, Frank

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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

James M. Barrie

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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

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Foster, Jodie

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Herbert, George

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Ogden Nash

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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