Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Diller, Phyllis

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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

James M. Barrie

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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

Halas, George

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark