Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

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

Proverb

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Diller, Phyllis

21.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marquis, Don

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Thomas A. Edison

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Peter Drucker

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

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

50.

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