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

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Romer, Frank

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

Twain, Mark

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Frost, Robert

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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

Voltaire

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

Maurois, Andre

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

22.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bible

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

31.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Riley, Pat

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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Gillis, Dobie

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

49.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De