Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

LeMond, Greg

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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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

James M. Barrie

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Ford, Henry

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Michelangelo

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.