Motivational Quotes

Work

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

- Green, Estill I.

Best Quotes about Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

11.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Bob Ross

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Prince, Ray

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Riley, Pat

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny