Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anatole France

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Baldwin, James

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ogden Nash

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

LeMond, Greg

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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