Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Richard Bach

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Escher, M. C.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Sam Ewing

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

33.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Lowell, James Russell

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

David Shore

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.