Motivational Quotes

Work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Book, William Frederick

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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.

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Voltaire

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne