Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ashford, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Work

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

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

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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.

John Ruskin

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Prince, Ray

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

Barack Obama

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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 don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Voltaire

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Foster, Jodie

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.