Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

- Comaneci, Nadia

Best Quotes about Work

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

13.

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

Ford, Henry

15.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

17.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

21.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

22.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Shakarian, David

31.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

32.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

33.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

34.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

35.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

42.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

44.

Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Foster, Jodie

49.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ashford, Evelyn