Motivational Quotes

Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henry J. Kaiser

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Hal Lancaster

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

David Shore

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

13.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

18.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

24.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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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

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

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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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

34.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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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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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

48.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.