Motivational Quotes

Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

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.

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

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fox, Jim

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Riley, Pat

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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Gillis, Dobie

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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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