Motivational Quotes

Work

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

- Salk, Dr. Jonas

Best Quotes about Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

20.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

25.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

31.

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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

35.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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

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

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

42.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley