Motivational Quotes

Work

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Best Quotes about Work

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Michelangelo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Riley, Pat

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

11.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

12.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

13.

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

Confucius

14.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

15.

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

Carty, Margaret

16.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

20.

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

21.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

25.

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

26.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

28.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

Holtz, Lou

31.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

34.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

36.

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 labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

40.

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

David Shore

41.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

42.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Keller, Helen

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

Picasso, Pablo

45.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Howard Newton

47.

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

49.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John