Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sand, George

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Don Marquis

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

27.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

28.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Proverb, French

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.