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 never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

Peter Drucker

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Rivers, Joan

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

11.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Holtz, Lou

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

22.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Slick, Grace

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

41.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

43.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

44.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

48.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley