Motivational Quotes

Work

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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

Pavlova, Anna

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Riley, Pat

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bob Ross

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Voltaire

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Marquis, Don

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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.

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.