Motivational Quotes

Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Best Quotes about Work

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Blow, Susan

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Prince, Ray

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

23.

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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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 brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dodge, B.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Huxley, Aldous

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