Motivational Quotes

Work

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Work

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

Ruskin, John

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

Richard Bach

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

Riley, Pat

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.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Frost, Robert

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

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

David McCullough

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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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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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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.