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

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.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Thomas A. Edison

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

David Shore

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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

Richard Bach

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

Weil, Simone

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ford, Henry

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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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.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Paterno, Joe

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Halas, George

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson