Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Work

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

Garfield, James A.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Twain, Mark

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

11.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

12.

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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

18.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Blow, Susan

20.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Sam Ewing

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

37.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

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

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

48.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

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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.