Motivational Quotes

Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is a four letter word!

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Baldwin, James

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

Howard Newton

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Halas, George

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Keller, Helen

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

Parkinson's Law

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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