Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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.

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.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Weil, Simone

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Ruskin, John

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Voltaire

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Jones, Beverly

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Frost, Robert

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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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

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

James M. Barrie