Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Work

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Oprah Winfrey

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Howard Newton

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?'

Don Marquis

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

11.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

15.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

16.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

17.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

18.

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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

21.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

22.

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

23.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

27.

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.

28.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

29.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

30.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

31.

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

Proverb

32.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

33.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Peter Drucker

36.

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

Shakarian, David

37.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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

39.

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.

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

42.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

45.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel