Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rutte, Martin

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Billings, Josh

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Sand, George

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Escher, M. C.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Richard Bach

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Proverb

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Paterno, Joe

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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