Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Frost, Robert

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

10.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

13.

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

Rutte, Martin

14.

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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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

20.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

21.

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

Riley, Pat

23.

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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

25.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

26.

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

27.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

29.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

40.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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

46.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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

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