Motivational Quotes

Work

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oakley, Ann

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

David McCullough

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Don Marquis

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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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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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

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Paterno, Joe

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.