Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bible

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

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Don Marquis

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

11.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Henry David Thoreau

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

Book, William Frederick

20.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

21.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Twain, Mark

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Work is a four letter word!

29.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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.

34.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Voltaire

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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