Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Ford, Henry

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.

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

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Sand, George

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Halas, George

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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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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

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

Voltaire

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Ogden Nash

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

42.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no substitute for hard work.