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

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Fitch, Fred W.

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

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

Bob Ross

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

34.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Stengel, Casey

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas