Motivational Quotes

Work

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Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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.

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Foster, Jodie

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Riley, Pat

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Halas, George

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.