Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

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

Carty, Margaret

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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

Lowell, James Russell

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Parkinson's Law

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Ford, Henry

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Escher, M. C.

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rutte, Martin

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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