Motivational Quotes

Work

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Work

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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.

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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

Sam Ewing

11.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

12.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

13.

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

Ford, Henry

14.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

15.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

16.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

18.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Ogden Nash

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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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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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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

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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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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

32.

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

33.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

43.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.