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

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.

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

Weil, Simone

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Ford, Henry

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

Lennon, John

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

Garfield, James A.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

10.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

11.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

12.

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

13.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

14.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

15.

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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

17.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

18.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

21.

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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

24.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

26.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

27.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

28.

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

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

31.

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

Don Marquis

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

34.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

36.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

37.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

40.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

43.

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

Pavlova, Anna

44.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

45.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

49.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb