Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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

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

Rutte, Martin

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Carty, Margaret

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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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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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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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

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

Barzan, Gerald

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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