Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Riley, Pat

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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Bob Ross

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

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

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Prince, Ray

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Foster, Jodie

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Don Marquis

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Michelangelo

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

Halas, George

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

Billings, Josh

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey