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

Herold, Don

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Riley, Pat

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

23.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

29.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Butterworth, Eric

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

James M. Barrie

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''