Motivational Quotes

Work

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Blow, Susan

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

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Paterno, Joe

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Lennon, John

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William 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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Riley, Pat

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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