Motivational Quotes

Work

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Work

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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.

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.

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

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

Howard Newton

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Twain, Mark

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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 time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Sam Ewing

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Voltaire

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Proverb

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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.

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Confucius

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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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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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow