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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.