Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Michelangelo

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Sam Ewing

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.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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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 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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Carty, Margaret

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Rohn, Jim

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ford, Henry

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

Oakley, Ann

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie