Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Riley, Pat

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

12.

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.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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

Prince, Ray

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Sand, George

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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 wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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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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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Blow, Susan

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?