Motivational Quotes

Work

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

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

Billings, Josh

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Weil, Simone

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.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work