Motivational Quotes

Work

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Work

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Herold, Don

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shakarian, David

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

13.

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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

16.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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

18.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

24.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

29.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

30.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

32.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

33.

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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

41.

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

Ruskin, John

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Oakley, Ann

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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.

Benchley, Robert

45.

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

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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

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

50.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.