Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wran, Neville Kenneth

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dodge, B.

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Robert Morley

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

Proverb

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

Shakarian, David

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.