Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Work

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Shakarian, David

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

Herold, Don

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Proverb

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

David McCullough

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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