Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Peter Drucker

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

Don Marquis

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

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

11.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Picasso, Pablo

18.

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

Diller, Phyllis

19.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

20.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

24.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Keller, Helen

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Slick, Grace

31.

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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Shakarian, David

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael