Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Pavlova, Anna

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

11.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

18.

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

Paterno, Joe

19.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

20.

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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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

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Keller, Helen

28.

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

Proverb, French

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

30.

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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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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 working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

36.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

41.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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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

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

Milsap, Ronnie