Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Howard Newton

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Hal Lancaster

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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

12.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

13.

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

Weil, Simone

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

19.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

20.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

22.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

23.

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

24.

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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

28.

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

Garfield, James A.

29.

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

Ford, Henry

30.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

31.

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.

32.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

33.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

34.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

35.

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

Rivers, Joan

36.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

40.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

41.

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

42.

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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

44.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

45.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

46.

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

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

49.

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

Devine, Dan

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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.