Motivational Quotes

Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

Best Quotes about Work

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Voltaire

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Baldwin, James

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Don Marquis

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

LeMond, Greg

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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 make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

33.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud