Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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

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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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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Prince, Ray

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Rohn, Jim

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Proverb

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

Peter Drucker

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew