Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Gretzky, Wayne

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Ruskin, John

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kemp, Jack

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Prince, Ray

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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 more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

David Shore

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Book, William Frederick

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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.