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

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Don Marquis

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

13.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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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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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

28.

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

30.

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

31.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Slick, Grace

40.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

41.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

43.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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