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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Book, William Frederick

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Carty, Margaret

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Peter Drucker

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

33.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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.

John Ruskin

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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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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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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

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Shakarian, David

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David