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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Jong, Erica

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Riley, Pat

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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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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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

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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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Escher, M. C.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Thomas A. Edison

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Twain, Mark