Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Richard Bach

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

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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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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

13.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

14.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

16.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

17.

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

Escher, M. C.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

21.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

22.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

24.

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

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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

26.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

28.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

33.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

35.

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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

37.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

38.

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

39.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

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

41.

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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

43.

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

Bible

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.