Motivational Quotes

Work

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Bible

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Howard Newton

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Work is a four letter word!

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michelangelo

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Proverb, French

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Rohn, Jim

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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