Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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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 highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Escher, M. C.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

40.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Book, William Frederick

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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