Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about 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

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

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Austen, Jane

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work is a four letter word!

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey