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

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bhagavad Gita

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Keller, Helen

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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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.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Michelangelo

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De