Motivational Quotes

Work

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Work

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

Lowell, James Russell

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

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

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

LeMond, Greg

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Ford, Henry

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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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.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard