Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Comaneci, Nadia

Best Quotes about Work

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Twain, Mark

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Voltaire

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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.

Robert Benchley

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French