Motivational Quotes

Work

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Robert Benchley

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Book, William Frederick

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Billings, Josh

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

32.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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 it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Herbert, George

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

42.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Riley, Pat

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.