Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thomas Carlyle

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Hal Lancaster

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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 not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

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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.

19.

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

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

27.

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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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

30.

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

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

34.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

36.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

38.

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

Jones, Beverly

39.

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

40.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

45.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Rivers, Joan

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen