Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Marquis, Don

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

Billings, Josh

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Berra, Yogi

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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 have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kemp, Jack

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Keller, Helen

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Work is a four letter word!

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.