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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ford, Henry

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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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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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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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Riley, Pat

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

28.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Pavlova, Anna

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert