Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Picasso, Pablo

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

11.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Keller, Helen

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

22.

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

Dodge, B.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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

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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

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

32.

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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Confucius

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

Diller, Phyllis

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat