Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

...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

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Peter Drucker

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Allen, James

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Rivers, Joan

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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