Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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 best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Proverb

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Richard Bach

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

Kemp, Jack

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