Motivational Quotes

Work

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

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

Theodore Roosevelt

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Billings, Josh

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ogden Nash

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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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 per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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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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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riley, Pat

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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