Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Work

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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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

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

31.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Hal Lancaster

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Riley, Pat

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

Austen, Jane

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

Don Marquis

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi