Motivational Quotes

Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Marquis, Don

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Kemp, Jack

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

22.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

25.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

28.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

29.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Voltaire

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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Rutte, Martin

35.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

40.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

David McCullough

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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.