Motivational Quotes

Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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 problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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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

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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

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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 learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric