Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Dodge, B.

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Mccarthy, Mary

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

Ogden Nash

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Garfield, James A.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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