Motivational Quotes

Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

David Shore

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

Comaneci, Nadia

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Lombardi, Vince

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

10.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

11.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

12.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

14.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

15.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Bob Ross

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

29.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Confucius

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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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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Don Marquis

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

39.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

42.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

44.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

45.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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

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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]

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