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 suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Don Marquis

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Angelou, Maya

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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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 person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Garfield, James A.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herbert, George

24.

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

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

David Shore

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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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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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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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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

45.

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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Keller, Helen