Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Jong, Erica

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Paterno, Joe

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James M. Barrie

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Ford, Henry

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

Dodge, B.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Marquis, Don

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

David McCullough

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.