Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Best Quotes about Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Keller, Helen

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Bible

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

22.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

32.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

49.

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

Foster, Jodie

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We work to become, not to acquire.