Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

David Shore

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

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.

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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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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

21.

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

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Keller, Helen

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fox, Jim

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is a four letter word!

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel