Motivational Quotes

Work

While a person gets they can never lose.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Work

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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.

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

Keller, Helen

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Twain, Mark

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Gorky, Maxim

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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