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

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

Mitchell, Warren

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.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Ford, Henry

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

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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

Devine, Dan

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

20.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rutte, Martin

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Comaneci, Nadia

42.

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

Twain, Mark

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug