Motivational Quotes

Work

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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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 don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

17.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

18.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

19.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

21.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Don Marquis

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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

24.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

26.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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

31.

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

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

39.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

40.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

42.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

44.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

45.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie