Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Ashford, Evelyn

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, French

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey