Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Rutte, Martin

Best Quotes about Work

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

Holtz, Lou

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.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Rutte, Martin

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

James M. Barrie

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ruskin, John

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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.

John Ruskin

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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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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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Blow, Susan

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Work is a four letter word!

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ogden Nash

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas