Motivational Quotes

Work

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Lennon, John

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey