Motivational Quotes

Work

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Angelou, Maya

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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

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

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles