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

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

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Garfield, James A.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

23.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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.

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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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

30.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Dodge, B.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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