Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Best Quotes about Work

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Ogden Nash

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

David Shore

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Halas, George

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Peter Drucker

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Rutte, Martin

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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.