Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Work

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Keller, Helen

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

Marquis, Don

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Ogden Nash

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

28.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

39.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

James M. Barrie

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

Bob Ross

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince