Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a four letter word!

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Book, William Frederick

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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 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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Voltaire

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rutte, Martin

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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil