Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ford, Henry

11.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

12.

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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

16.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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.

18.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

23.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

29.

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

30.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

31.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

32.

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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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

35.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

36.

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.

37.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

38.

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

Bible

39.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

40.

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

Rutte, Martin

41.

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

James M. Barrie

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

43.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Sam Ewing

46.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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