Motivational Quotes

Work

Work your way up or rust your way out.

- Holton

Best Quotes about Work

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oakley, Ann

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Dodge, B.

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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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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.