Motivational Quotes

Work

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

- LeMond, Greg

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

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

Parkinson's Law

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

James M. Barrie

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

17.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Lombardi, Vince

24.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

25.

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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

30.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

31.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

39.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Richard Bach

49.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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