Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Best Quotes about Work

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

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

Michelangelo

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

15.

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

Halas, George

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

19.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

20.

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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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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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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

27.

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

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

39.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mitchell, Warren

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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