Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

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

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

Howard Newton

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Keller, Helen

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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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

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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 work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bible

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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]

Bible

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Twain, Mark

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert