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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Keller, Helen

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

18.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

19.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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 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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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

23.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Confucius

25.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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

David McCullough

28.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

29.

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

30.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Bob Ross

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

37.

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

Proverb, French

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

50.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.