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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Best Quotes about Work

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

Shakarian, David

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Ashford, Evelyn

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Richard Bach

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Romer, Frank

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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.

John Ruskin

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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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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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