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

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

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Peter Drucker

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

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

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

40.

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

David Shore

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen