Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jong, Erica

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Slick, Grace

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Ford, Henry

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis