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

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Carty, Margaret

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is a four letter word!

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

17.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Riley, Pat

19.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Voltaire

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

37.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Fox, Jim

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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