Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Butler, Samuel

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

LeMond, Greg

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

James M. Barrie

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

Herbert, George

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Richard Bach

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

Thomas A. Edison

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette