Motivational Quotes

Work

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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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

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

Blow, Susan

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, French

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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 man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas