Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Gillis, Dobie

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Ford, Henry

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Ogden Nash

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Peter Drucker

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Riley, Pat

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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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.

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Michelangelo

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

Ruskin, John

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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