Motivational Quotes

Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Work

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

David McCullough

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Jones, Beverly

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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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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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Voltaire

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Twain, Mark

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

Halas, George

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert