Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Reagan, Ronald

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mitchell, Warren

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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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

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foster, Jodie

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

43.

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

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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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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

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John