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

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Blow, Susan

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

Keller, Helen

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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

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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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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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Work is a four letter word!

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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