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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Frost, Robert

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

13.

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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

18.

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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

34.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

39.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

42.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

47.

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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Rutte, Martin

50.

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

Comaneci, Nadia