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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

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

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Foster, Jodie

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Howard Newton

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

24.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

27.

Work is a four letter word!

28.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

33.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

34.

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.

35.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Ogden Nash

38.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Jong, Erica

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

Weil, Simone

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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 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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.