Motivational Quotes

Work

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Best Quotes about Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Keller, Helen

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

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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