Motivational Quotes

Work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

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

The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

11.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Dodge, B.

13.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

14.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

15.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

22.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Rohn, Jim

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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

LeMond, Greg

29.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

30.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

31.

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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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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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

37.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

39.

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

Keller, Helen

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

42.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

43.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

44.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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

48.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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