Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Paterno, Joe

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Herbert, George

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Jong, Erica

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe