Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Smith, Dr. Walter

Best Quotes about Work

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

Proverb, American

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Don Marquis

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

10.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

11.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

12.

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

13.

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

14.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

15.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

16.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

19.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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

21.

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

22.

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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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

25.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

26.

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

27.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

28.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

29.

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

Kemp, Jack

30.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

31.

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

32.

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

33.

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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

38.

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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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

40.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

41.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

45.

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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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Peter Drucker

49.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

50.

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