Motivational Quotes

Work

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Work

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Oakley, Ann

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Voltaire

Work is a four letter word!

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

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holtz, Lou

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

12.

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

Richard Bach

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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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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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Michelangelo

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan