Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Ogden Nash

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

David Shore

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

LeMond, Greg

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

12.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

David McCullough

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Halas, George

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

33.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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