Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Lowell, James Russell

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Butler, Samuel

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Hal Lancaster

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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 spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

35.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor