Motivational Quotes

Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Work

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Paterno, Joe

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Robert Morley

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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

Bible

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Frost, Robert

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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.