Motivational Quotes

Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

David McCullough

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Work is a four letter word!

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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.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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