Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- David Shore

Best Quotes about Work

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

Hepburn, Katharine

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Michelangelo

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

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Carty, Margaret

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Rivers, Joan

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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 expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.