Motivational Quotes

Work

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

- Howard Newton

Best Quotes about Work

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

Thomas Carlyle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Bible

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Oprah Winfrey

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

11.

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

Richard Bach

12.

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

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

Kemp, Jack

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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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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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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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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

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sand, George

36.

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

39.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius