Motivational Quotes

Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

- Jean De La Fontaine

Best Quotes about Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Robert Morley

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Twain, Mark

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Prince, Ray

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Thomas A. Edison

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret