Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Bible

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Herold, Don

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Prince, Ray

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

10.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

11.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

12.

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

13.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Book, William Frederick

17.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

18.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

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 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

21.

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

22.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Johnson, James Weldon

25.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

26.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

27.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

28.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

29.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

30.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

31.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

32.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

39.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

41.

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

Bob Ross

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

45.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

48.

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

Marquis, Don

49.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

50.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.