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

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

Voltaire

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Herbert, George

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

LeMond, Greg

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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

David McCullough

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lennon, John

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

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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...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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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.