Motivational Quotes

Work

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, 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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

11.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

12.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

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

16.

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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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.

24.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

25.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

26.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

27.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

28.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Rutte, Martin

30.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

32.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

33.

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

34.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

35.

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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Confucius

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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.

Robert Benchley

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

43.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

48.

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

Proverb, American

49.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

LeMond, Greg