Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Howard Newton

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Ford, Henry

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Ogden Nash

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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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 have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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?