Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Don Marquis

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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