Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

32.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd