Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Work

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

David McCullough

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Oakley, Ann

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Howard Newton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

David Shore

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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

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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