Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

11.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

13.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

14.

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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peter Drucker

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Carty, Margaret

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Voltaire