Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mitchell, Warren

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keller, Helen

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Frost, Robert

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

10.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Twain, Mark

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jones, Beverly

15.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

17.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

18.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

21.

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

22.

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

Sam Ewing

23.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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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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

27.

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

Prince, Ray

28.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

29.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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.

33.

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

34.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

40.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

43.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Paterno, Joe

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

50.

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.