Motivational Quotes

Work

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Work

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

10.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gillis, Dobie

27.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

28.

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

29.

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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

31.

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

32.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

37.

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

Escher, M. C.

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Keller, Helen

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

48.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.