Motivational Quotes

Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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

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

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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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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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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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 sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

21.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

29.

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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

31.

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.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

33.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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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