Motivational Quotes

Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Milsap, Ronnie

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Proverb, American

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Book, William Frederick

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Ogden Nash

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

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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

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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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.