Motivational Quotes

Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Best Quotes about Work

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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

Rohn, Jim

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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

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

Howard Newton

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Devine, Dan

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Angelou, Maya

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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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.

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

Shakarian, David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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The sharp employ the sharp.