Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Work

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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

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

Halas, George

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Allen, James

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

David McCullough

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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

Ford, Henry

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.