Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dodge, B.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, American

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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 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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Howard Newton

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

David Shore

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Lincoln, Abraham