Motivational Quotes

Work

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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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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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Michelangelo

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

Riley, Pat

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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 is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Herbert, George

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

43.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Theodore Roosevelt