Motivational Quotes

Work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Work

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Confucius

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

Ashford, Evelyn

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Foster, Jodie

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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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

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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 saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Riley, Pat

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis