Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Dodge, B.

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

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Riley, Pat

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip