Motivational Quotes

Work

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Best Quotes about Work

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

Mansfield, Katherine

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Howard Newton

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

11.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

13.

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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

18.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

19.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

21.

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

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

Riley, Pat

25.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Work is a four letter word!

27.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

30.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

David McCullough

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, French

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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.

44.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

45.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

46.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell