Motivational Quotes

Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

- Javits, Marion

Best Quotes about Work

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Jones, Beverly

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

10.

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

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paterno, Joe

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work is a four letter word!

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius