Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

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

Milsap, Ronnie

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Devine, Dan

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

Don Marquis

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Confucius

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

Atkinson, Brooks

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

10.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

David McCullough

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

18.

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

Marquis, Don

19.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

37.

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

Riley, Pat

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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

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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

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page