Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Work

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Halas, George

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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Frost, Robert

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

Don Marquis

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

Keller, Helen

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

David McCullough

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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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 saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

45.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Ruskin, John

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Keller, Helen