Motivational Quotes

Work

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

- LeMond, Greg

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

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

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

Lennon, John

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Slick, Grace

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

10.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

11.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

13.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

14.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

19.

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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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

22.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

25.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

31.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

32.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

33.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

34.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

35.

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

36.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

38.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

43.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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

45.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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.