Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Best Quotes about Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sand, George

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

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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.

John Ruskin

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Keller, Helen

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Benchley, 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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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

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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

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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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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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