Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Prince, Ray

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

10.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

13.

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 love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

15.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

18.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

19.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

21.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

22.

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

23.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

24.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

25.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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.

Robert Benchley

27.

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

Thomas A. Edison

28.

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

29.

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

Allen, James

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

37.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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

43.

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

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

Oakley, Ann

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

49.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page