Motivational Quotes

Work

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

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

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Fox, Jim

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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 work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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 to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom