Motivational Quotes

Work

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Best Quotes about Work

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Shakarian, David

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Gillis, Dobie

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.