Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor diligently to increase your property.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Shakarian, David

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Ruskin, John

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Prince, Ray

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance