Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Frost, Robert

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

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 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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Herold, Don

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Caddy, Eileen

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Carty, Margaret