Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Bhagavad Gita

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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.

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

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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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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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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 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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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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 is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Ruskin, John

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Herold, Don