Motivational Quotes

Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Best Quotes about Work

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Garfield, James A.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Herold, Don

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

Lombardi, Vince

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

17.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

22.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

25.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Michelangelo

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

43.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret