Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

10.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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 is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

21.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

28.

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Proverb, French

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

34.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Voltaire

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

42.

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

43.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.