Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Peter Drucker

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

21.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

22.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

25.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

28.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Prince, Ray

33.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Voltaire

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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