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

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

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

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

Marquis, Don

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Dodge, B.

10.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

11.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Peter Drucker

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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 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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Lombardi, Vince

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.