Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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 per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Richard Bach

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Keller, Helen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

37.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close