Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Garfield, James A.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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 secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

39.

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

Michelangelo

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Prince, Ray

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

Henry J. Kaiser