Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Work

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

Robert Benchley

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas A. Edison

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

12.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

13.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

14.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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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.

18.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

19.

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

Carty, Margaret

21.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

23.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

24.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ruskin, John

27.

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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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

31.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

32.

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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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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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Ford, Henry

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

45.

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

46.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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

Thomas A. Edison

49.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou