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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Howard Newton

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Pavlova, Anna