Motivational Quotes

Work

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Paterno, Joe

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Herbert, George

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Peter Drucker

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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

Keller, Helen

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Billings, Josh

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Butler, Samuel

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Austen, Jane

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt