Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Coolidge, Calvin

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Rohn, Jim

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dodge, B.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without 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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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

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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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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