Motivational Quotes

Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Work

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

Shakarian, David

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Ruskin, John

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

19.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

20.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

29.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Bible

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry