Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Slick, Grace

Best Quotes about Work

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Bob Ross

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, French

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

22.

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

Jones, Beverly

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

32.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Butler, Samuel

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Ford, Henry

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

38.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean