Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Romer, Frank

Best Quotes about Work

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dodge, B.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

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

Allen, James

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Proverb

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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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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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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Voltaire

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Riley, Pat

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

David Shore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Bob Ross

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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