Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Prince, Ray

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

10.

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

11.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

12.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

14.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

15.

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

Don Marquis

16.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

17.

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

18.

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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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

20.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

25.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

26.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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

28.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

31.

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

Billings, Josh

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

39.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

40.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

45.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

46.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George