Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Fox, Jim

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

Edison, Thomas A.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Don Marquis

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

15.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Howard Newton

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

Proverb, American

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Richard Bach

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

27.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

28.

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

Michelangelo

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

42.

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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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.