Motivational Quotes

Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Don Marquis

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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 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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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

Prince, Ray

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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 man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.