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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Proverb, American

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Shakarian, David

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Work is a four letter word!

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

David McCullough

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Foster, Jodie

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Michelangelo

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Gillis, Dobie

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas