Motivational Quotes

Work

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

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

Weil, Simone

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bible

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

James M. Barrie

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

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

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Ogden Nash

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett