Motivational Quotes

Work

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Work

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Foster, Jodie

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Howard Newton

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

14.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

15.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

16.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

17.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

18.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

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.

21.

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

Frost, Robert

22.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

23.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

24.

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

Keller, Helen

25.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

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

Halas, George

32.

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

James M. Barrie

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

38.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

41.

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

Book, William Frederick

42.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

44.

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

45.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

47.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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