Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ford, Henry

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

12.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Voltaire

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

21.

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

Keller, Helen

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

27.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

30.

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

31.

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

Rutte, Martin

32.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

33.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

David Shore

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

39.

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

Slick, Grace

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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

43.

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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

48.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

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