Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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

11.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

15.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

18.

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

19.

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

Sand, George

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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.

Benchley, Robert

21.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

26.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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

28.

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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

30.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Henry

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Keller, Helen

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.