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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

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

Devine, Dan

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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

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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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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bob Ross

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

Angelou, Maya

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

LeMond, Greg

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Rutte, Martin

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter