Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marquis, Don

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

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

Keller, Helen

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

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Rohn, Jim

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

David McCullough

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

41.

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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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 the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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