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

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Bible

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

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

12.

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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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

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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

20.

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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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

25.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

28.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

30.

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

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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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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.

33.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

34.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Oakley, Ann

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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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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

43.

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

James M. Barrie

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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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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

48.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.