Motivational Quotes

Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Bible

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

Kemp, Jack

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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.

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

20.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

29.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

39.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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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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

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don