Motivational Quotes

Work

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

- David McCullough

Best Quotes about Work

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

...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

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

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

David Shore

10.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

11.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

12.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Devine, Dan

14.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

15.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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

17.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

18.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

19.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

20.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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

22.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

26.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

27.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

29.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Marquis, Don

33.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

34.

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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

36.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

41.

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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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.

43.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

44.

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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Twain, Mark