Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Bible

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Lazarus, Charles

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Sam Ewing

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Proverb

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Anatole France

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

29.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I believe that good things come to those who work.