Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Holtz, Lou

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Pickens, T. Boone

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Herbert, George

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

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

Barack Obama

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

37.

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

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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.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.