Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Lombardi, Vince

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Thomas A. Edison

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Gillis, Dobie

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Michelangelo

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Ford, Henry

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Paterno, Joe

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, French

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat