Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Diller, Phyllis

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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 saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Book, William Frederick

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Marquis, Don

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

James M. Barrie

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Rutte, Martin

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

David Shore

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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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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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