Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Keller, Helen

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marquis, Don

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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.

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Ford, Henry

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

LeMond, Greg