Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Blow, Susan

Best Quotes about Work

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

Rutte, Martin

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

David McCullough

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Riley, Pat

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

21.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Robert Morley

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Jong, Erica

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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.