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

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Henry J. Kaiser

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

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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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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Blow, Susan

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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 longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Lawrence, D. H.

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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 every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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