Motivational Quotes

Work

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Austen, Jane

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

Coolidge, Calvin

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ford, Henry

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Foster, Jodie

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

29.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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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 not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Bible

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

40.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

David Shore

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi