Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Shakarian, David

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Allen, James

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

21.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

22.

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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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Escher, M. C.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 is a four letter word!

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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