Motivational Quotes

Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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

Kipling, Rudyard

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

David Shore

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Riley, Pat

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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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.

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Mitchell, Warren

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kemp, Jack

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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 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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl