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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Riley, Pat

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Fox, Jim

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

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Peter Drucker

10.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

12.

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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

18.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

19.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

20.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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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

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

31.

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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Baldwin, James

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

40.

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

41.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara