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

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Devine, Dan

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

Richard Bach

10.

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

11.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

12.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

15.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

16.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

17.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

18.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

19.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Mitchell, Warren

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

23.

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

Blow, Susan

24.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

26.

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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

28.

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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

32.

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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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

34.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

35.

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

Keller, Helen

36.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

37.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

38.

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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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

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

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

45.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

48.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

49.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

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