Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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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

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 --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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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Fox, Jim

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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