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

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gretzky, Wayne

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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.

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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

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Don Marquis

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Billings, Josh

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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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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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth