Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Proverb

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

Rivers, Joan

10.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

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

LeMond, Greg

12.

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

Lombardi, Vince

14.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

16.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

18.

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

19.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

20.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

21.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

22.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

23.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

24.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

27.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

28.

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

Ogden Nash

29.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

30.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

33.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

34.

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

35.

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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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

38.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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

40.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

41.

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

Lowell, James Russell

42.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

43.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

44.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

45.

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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.