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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

James M. Barrie

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ford, Henry

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

12.

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

Ogden Nash

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Foster, Jodie

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Kemp, Jack

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

Riley, Pat

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

39.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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