Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Wilde, Oscar

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

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

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

Berra, Yogi

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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.

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Weil, Simone

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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

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

Richard Bach

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.