Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Peter Drucker

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Carty, Margaret

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Marquis, Don

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James M. Barrie

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

Voltaire

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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