Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

10.

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

Proverb

11.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

21.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Confucius

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Richard Bach

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Thomas A. Edison

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Romer, Frank

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Bible

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine