Motivational Quotes

Work

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Riley, Pat

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carty, Margaret

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent 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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Paterno, Joe

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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

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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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Work is a four letter word!