Motivational Quotes

Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

- Streep, Meryl

Best Quotes about Work

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Herold, Don

10.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

18.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

19.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Confucius

25.

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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

30.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

31.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Peter Drucker

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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