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

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

Bhagavad Gita

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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

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

Don Marquis

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

Diller, Phyllis

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gillis, Dobie

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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