Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

David McCullough

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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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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

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

Elbert Hubbard

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Twain, Mark

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

Barack Obama

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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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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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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