Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Work is a four letter word!

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Twain, Mark

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sam Ewing

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Don Marquis