Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Garfield, James A.

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

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

Milsap, Ronnie

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent 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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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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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Oakley, Ann

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Twain, Mark

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Voltaire

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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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.

29.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

David Shore

35.

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

38.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

45.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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.

48.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paterno, Joe

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George