Motivational Quotes

Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ruskin, John

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

10.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

11.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

13.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

14.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

16.

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

17.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

18.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

19.

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

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

21.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

26.

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

David Shore

28.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Don Marquis

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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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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

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Prince, Ray

44.

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

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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Ogden Nash