Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Mitchell, Warren

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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 that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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

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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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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Ogden Nash

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.