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]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

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.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

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

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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

Billings, Josh

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Kemp, Jack

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Rutte, Martin

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Butler, Samuel

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

David Shore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Bible

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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 is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don