Motivational Quotes

Work

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Lombardi, Vince

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Richard Bach

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

19.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

50.

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