Motivational Quotes

Work

The sharp employ the sharp.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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

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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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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

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

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Book, William Frederick

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Paterno, Joe

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Keller, Helen

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

Maurois, Andre

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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