Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Best Quotes about Work

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

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Sand, George

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Twain, Mark

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Parkinson's Law

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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

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

Voltaire

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bible

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.