Motivational Quotes

Work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Paterno, Joe

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Thomas A. Edison

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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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