Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dodge, B.

Best Quotes about Work

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

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mitchell, Warren

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Robert Morley

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

Billings, Josh

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Voltaire

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Don Marquis

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

Prince, Ray

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama