Motivational Quotes

Work

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

- Fitch, Fred W.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

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

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Austen, Jane

10.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

11.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

13.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

14.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

15.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

16.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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

18.

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

Slick, Grace

19.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

20.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Confucius

26.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

27.

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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Elbert Hubbard

33.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

35.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

36.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

40.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

42.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Thomas Carlyle

44.

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

45.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

46.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

47.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius