Motivational Quotes

Work

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Michelangelo

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Herold, Don

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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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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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

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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

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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 is the yeast that raises the dough

40.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

41.

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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer