Motivational Quotes

Work

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Work

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Ashford, Evelyn

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Fox, Jim

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

Rutte, Martin

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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.

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Michelangelo

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.