Motivational Quotes

Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

- Bob Ross

Best Quotes about Work

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Herold, Don

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Romer, Frank

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

20.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

21.

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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

23.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Reagan, Ronald

28.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Dodge, B.

30.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Twain, Mark

34.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

35.

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Rivers, Joan

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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 eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

40.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett