Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Marquis, Don

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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

40.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.