Motivational Quotes

Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

10.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

11.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

12.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

13.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

16.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

17.

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

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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

19.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

20.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

22.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

26.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

29.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

30.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

31.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

33.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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

36.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

40.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

41.

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

42.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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