Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Syrus, Publilius

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jong, Erica

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Richard Bach

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Thomas A. Edison