Motivational Quotes

Work

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Work

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Lombardi, Vince

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.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Don Marquis

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Devine, Dan

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.