Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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.

15.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

16.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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

23.

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

Voltaire

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

27.

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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.