Motivational Quotes

Work

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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

Holtz, Lou

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Rivers, Joan

11.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

14.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

15.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

16.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

18.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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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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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Gorky, Maxim

27.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

David Shore

31.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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

33.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

38.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

41.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan