Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Blow, Susan

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

Henry David Thoreau

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Dodge, B.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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.

John Ruskin

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

20.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

28.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

35.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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 banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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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 more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Elbert Hubbard

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Peter Drucker