Motivational Quotes

Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Work

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

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Michelangelo

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

David Shore

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Paterno, Joe

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Voltaire

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom