Motivational Quotes

Work

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

- Kemp, Jack

Best Quotes about Work

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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.

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ogden Nash

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Gorky, Maxim

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack