Motivational Quotes

Work

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

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

Barack Obama

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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

18.

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

25.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

26.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

27.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

28.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

30.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

32.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Peter Drucker

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Parkinson, Joseph