Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Halas, George

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.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Thatcher, Margaret

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Prince, Ray

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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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.

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Robert Benchley

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Voltaire

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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

Confucius