Motivational Quotes

Work

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Work

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Jong, Erica

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Escher, M. C.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kemp, Jack

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

David McCullough

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

Angelou, Maya