Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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

Carty, Margaret

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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 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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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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

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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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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Robert Morley

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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

James M. Barrie

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.