Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- David McCullough

Best Quotes about Work

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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

11.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

12.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

14.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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

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

LeMond, Greg

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Parkinson's Law

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

29.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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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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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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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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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

43.

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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Work is a four letter word!

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

48.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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