Motivational Quotes

Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Best Quotes about Work

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bible

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Riley, Pat

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Proverb, American

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Work is a four letter word!

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Ford, Henry

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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