Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rutte, Martin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Prince, Ray

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

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

Don Marquis

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Anatole France

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

Parkinson's Law

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Paterno, Joe

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lowell, James Russell

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

36.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Book, William Frederick

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Carty, Margaret

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

48.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth