Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Proverb, American

10.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

11.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

13.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

14.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Sand, George

18.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

19.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

20.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

21.

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

Confucius

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

LeMond, Greg

24.

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

Fox, Jim

25.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

26.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

28.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

29.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

32.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

33.

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.

34.

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

35.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

38.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

40.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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.

43.

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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Ruskin, John

47.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

48.

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

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

50.

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.