Motivational Quotes

Work

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Parkinson's Law

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Proverb

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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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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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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

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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 with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.