Motivational Quotes

Work

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

10.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

11.

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

12.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

14.

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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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Atkinson, Brooks

18.

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

19.

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

20.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

21.

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Keller, Helen

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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

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

Bob Ross

27.

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

Foster, Jodie

28.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

33.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

40.

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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

42.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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