Motivational Quotes

Work

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Baldwin, James

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

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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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

11.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

Maurois, Andre

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

28.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

34.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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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

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

40.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

41.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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

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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

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.