Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

10.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

17.

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

Parkinson's Law

18.

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

Prince, Ray

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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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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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

30.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

34.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

44.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou