Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Work is a four letter word!

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Gillis, Dobie

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

David McCullough

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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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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace