Motivational Quotes

Work

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Don Marquis

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Halas, George

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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 greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Paterno, Joe

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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

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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