Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

James M. Barrie

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.

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

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

Pavlova, Anna

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

Ford, Henry

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Frost, Robert

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Don Marquis

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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

Kollwitz, KaThe