Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Peter Drucker

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

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

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.

13.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

16.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

17.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

18.

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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

20.

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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Sand, George

24.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

26.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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.

33.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

35.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

36.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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 problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

39.

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

43.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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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