Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

- Prince, Ray

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Ogden Nash

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.

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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 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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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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

Lennon, John

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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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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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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Keller, Helen

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.