Motivational Quotes

Work

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ford, Henry

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Voltaire

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David