Motivational Quotes

Work

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

- Sam Ewing

Best Quotes about Work

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Peter Drucker

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Riley, Pat

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Proverb, American

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

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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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

David McCullough

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

Proverb, French

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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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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Work is a four letter word!

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.