Motivational Quotes

Work

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

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

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peter Drucker

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

Riley, Pat

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

10.

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

11.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

12.

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

13.

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 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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bob Ross

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

Twain, Mark

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Bible

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Frost, Robert

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

32.

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

Foster, Jodie

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

34.

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

Diller, Phyllis

35.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

36.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

37.

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

Riley, Pat

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

41.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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.

43.

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

Rutte, Martin

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

48.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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