Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Twain, Mark

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Bob Ross

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

14.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

15.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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

17.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

19.

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

Angelou, Maya

20.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

22.

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

26.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

28.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

31.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

33.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Confucius

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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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

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paterno, Joe

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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