Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Blow, Susan

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Ogden Nash

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

23.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

29.

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

Billings, Josh

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Book, William Frederick

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen