Motivational Quotes

Work

If food were free, why work?

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Work

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

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Ruskin, John

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

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

Angelou, Maya

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

37.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

39.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

40.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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

Peter Drucker

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

Michelangelo

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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