Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Work

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Herbert, George

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

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Michelangelo

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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.

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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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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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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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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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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

Devine, Dan

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Weil, Simone

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel