Motivational Quotes

Work

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

- Fromme, Dr. Allan

Best Quotes about Work

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Butler, Samuel

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Herbert, George

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

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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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dodge, B.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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 working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Ruskin, John

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

Prince, Ray

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs