Motivational Quotes

Work

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

- Charette, Fred

Best Quotes about Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Sand, George

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Ruskin, John

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

Voltaire

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

David McCullough

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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 believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work is a four letter word!

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Twain, Mark

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark