Motivational Quotes

Work

Work alone is noble.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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

Herbert, George

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

Confucius

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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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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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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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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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh