Motivational Quotes

Work

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

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.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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.

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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Keller, Helen

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Oakley, Ann

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Voltaire

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Ruskin, John

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning