Motivational Quotes

Work

The work praises the man.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Work

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Weil, Simone

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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

Proverb, French

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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

David McCullough

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De