Motivational Quotes

Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Robert Morley

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Howard Newton

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Twain, Mark

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Marquis, Don

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Weil, Simone

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De