Motivational Quotes

Work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Fox, Jim

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Thomas A. Edison

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Proverb, American

12.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

14.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

LeMond, Greg

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

26.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

30.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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.

32.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

40.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

Halas, George

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mitchell, Warren