Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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Best Quotes about Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Pavlova, Anna

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

32.

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

Ford, Henry

33.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

36.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

37.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Don Marquis

43.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Robert Benchley

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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