Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Riley, Pat

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

Robert Benchley

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

Ruskin, John

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, French

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

Riley, Pat

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Peter Drucker

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Billings, Josh

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Ford, Henry

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