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

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

Confucius

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Work is a four letter word!

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Baldwin, James

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

David McCullough

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

Herold, Don

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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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

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lowell, James Russell

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Paterno, Joe

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles