Motivational Quotes

Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

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

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.

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

Diller, Phyllis

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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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 fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann