Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ford, Henry

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

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Prince, Ray

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Oprah Winfrey

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

19.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

22.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work is a four letter word!

28.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Voltaire

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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De