Motivational Quotes

Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Riley, Pat

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

LeMond, Greg

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

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

10.

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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

16.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

17.

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

David McCullough

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

Herbert, George

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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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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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Barack Obama

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

33.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Weil, Simone