Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pickens, T. Boone

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Blow, Susan

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Michelangelo

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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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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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