Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is a four letter word!

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Hal Lancaster

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

10.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

11.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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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 is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

20.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

25.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

27.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

28.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Foster, Jodie

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

35.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lombardi, Vince

44.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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

47.

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

48.

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan