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

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

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

David McCullough

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Rohn, Jim

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Barack Obama

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

Escher, M. C.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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 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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Herbert, George

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey