Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Work

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald