Motivational Quotes

Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

- Larry Page

Best Quotes about Work

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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.

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Herbert, George

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

21.

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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

30.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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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

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Mitchell, Warren

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom