Motivational Quotes

Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Work

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Devine, Dan

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

Voltaire

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

John Ruskin

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Parkinson's Law

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

37.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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

David McCullough

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

Bob Ross

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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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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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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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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

Proverb

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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.

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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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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