Motivational Quotes

Work

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Work

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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 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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

12.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

18.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

19.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

20.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

22.

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

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

25.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

27.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

34.

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

Richard Bach

35.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

38.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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

42.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.