Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

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

Keller, Helen

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Twain, Mark

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Escher, M. C.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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

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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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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

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.