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

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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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 grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lincoln, Abraham