Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Richard Bach

Best Quotes about Work

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Kemp, Jack

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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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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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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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

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

25.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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

29.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

30.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

34.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

35.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Howard Newton

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

43.

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

Barack Obama

48.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

49.

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Lombardi, Vince