Motivational Quotes

Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Work

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

20.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

31.

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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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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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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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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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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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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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Gorky, Maxim