Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Kemp, Jack

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Lowell, James Russell

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Richard Bach

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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

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work is a four letter word!

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Proverb

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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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo