Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Mitchell, Warren

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Barack Obama

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

David McCullough

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

Peter Drucker

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

David Shore

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Dodge, B.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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