Motivational Quotes

Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Proverb

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Don Marquis

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall