Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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.

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

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Kemp, Jack

18.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ford, Henry

20.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

21.

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

Twain, Mark

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Keller, Helen

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

35.

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

37.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Robert Morley

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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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

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick