Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Work

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thomas Carlyle

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Robert Morley

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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Book, William Frederick

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bob Ross

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Foster, Jodie

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

47.

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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark