Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rutte, Martin

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hepburn, Katharine

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

14.

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

Richard Bach

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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

24.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

25.

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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Blow, Susan

30.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

34.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

44.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

48.

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

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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 are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg