Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Paterno, Joe

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

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Huxley, Aldous

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Jones, Beverly

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marquis, Don

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.