Motivational Quotes

Work

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Thomas A. Edison

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

10.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

11.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

12.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

13.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

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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

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

20.

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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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

23.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

28.

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

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

30.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

33.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

34.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Rutte, Martin

42.

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret