Motivational Quotes

Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Bible

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Stengel, Casey

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.