Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Rivers, Joan

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Ford, Henry

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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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

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor