Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pennebaker, Don Alan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Angelou, Maya

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Proverb, French

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Keller, Helen

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Halas, George

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.