Motivational Quotes

Work

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

- LeMond, Greg

Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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 person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, American

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

34.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

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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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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Peter Drucker

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques