Motivational Quotes

Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Shakarian, David

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Don Marquis

11.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Devine, Dan

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Pavlova, Anna

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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.

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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