Motivational Quotes

Work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Bible

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker