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

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

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

David Shore

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Hill, Napoleon

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

10.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

14.

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

15.

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

Peter Drucker

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

17.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Bible

19.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

20.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

21.

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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

24.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

25.

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

Slick, Grace

26.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

30.

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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

32.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

35.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

36.

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

Thomas A. Edison

37.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

38.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

39.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

40.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

42.

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

43.

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

Jones, Beverly

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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.

45.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

46.

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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

49.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

50.

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

Don Marquis