Motivational Quotes

Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Work

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

Prince, Ray

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barack Obama

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Voltaire

10.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

12.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

13.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

15.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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

17.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

18.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

21.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

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

Maurois, Andre

26.

Work is a four letter word!

27.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

28.

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

29.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

30.

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

31.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

33.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

34.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

35.

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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Riley, Pat

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kemp, Jack

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

48.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

49.

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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla