Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Work

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

Richard Bach

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

Butterworth, Eric

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peter Drucker

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Maurois, Andre

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Prince, Ray

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

43.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Frost, Robert