Motivational Quotes

Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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.

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

Lennon, John

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Pavlova, Anna

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Keller, Helen

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

Riley, Pat

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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.

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Michelangelo

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Blow, Susan

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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

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

Voltaire

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John