Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Work

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

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

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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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

Syrus, Publilius

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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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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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

23.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

28.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

29.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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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 problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Voltaire

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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