Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Bob Ross

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret 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

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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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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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Marquis, Don

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Richard Bach

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel