Motivational Quotes

Work

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

- Monson, Thomas S.

Best Quotes about Work

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Riley, Pat

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

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

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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 will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Benchley, Robert

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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.