Motivational Quotes

Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

- Tessier, Josephine

Best Quotes about Work

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

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

Howard Newton

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ford, Henry

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Allen, James

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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Rutte, Martin

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

25.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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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.

Riley, Pat

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

30.

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

Kemp, Jack

31.

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

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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