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

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Richard Bach

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Don Marquis

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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

21.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

22.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

23.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

24.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

25.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

26.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

27.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

28.

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

Keller, Helen

30.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

31.

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

32.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Escher, M. C.

37.

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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

40.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

43.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

45.

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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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey