Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

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

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

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Carty, Margaret

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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

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Thomas A. Edison

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Weil, Simone