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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Marquis, Don

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Kemp, Jack

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Twain, Mark

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jones, Beverly

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

David McCullough

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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 ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Sand, George

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen