Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Mitchell, Warren

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Rivers, Joan

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

James M. Barrie

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Peter Drucker

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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