Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Paterno, Joe

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Herold, Don

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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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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

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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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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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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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