Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Prince, Ray

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

19.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Oakley, Ann

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Marquis, Don

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

43.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Herbert, George

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug