Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Work

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

James M. Barrie

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

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

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, American

17.

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

18.

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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

23.

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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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

25.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

26.

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

David Shore

27.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

29.

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.

30.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

31.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

34.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

35.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

36.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

40.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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

Fox, Jim

44.

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

45.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Robert Morley