Motivational Quotes

Work

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Jong, Erica

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

27.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Oakley, Ann

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Riley, Pat

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.