Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the province of cattle.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

18.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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There is no substitute for hard 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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Book, William Frederick

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Lincoln, Abraham