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 have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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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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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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 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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Richard Bach

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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