Motivational Quotes

Work

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

- Pavlova, Anna

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Halas, George

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Devine, Dan

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Twain, Mark

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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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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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Escher, M. C.

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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

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ford, Henry

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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