Motivational Quotes

Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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.

John Ruskin

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

Foster, Jodie

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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 work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Ogden Nash

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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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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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

43.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.