Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jones, Beverly

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

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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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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

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Riley, Pat

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

David Shore

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

Richard Bach

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.