Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Ogden Nash

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Fox, Jim

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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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

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Oakley, Ann

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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