Motivational Quotes

Work

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Work

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Frost, Robert

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sam Ewing

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

12.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

19.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

Billings, Josh

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

25.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

26.

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

27.

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

Marquis, Don

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

30.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

34.

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

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

36.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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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.

40.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Garfield, James A.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.